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THBR.B. Kitaj
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18350 Chesterfield Airport Rd
Chesterfield, MO 63005
United States
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About Auction
TimedMay 4, 2018 - May 17, 2018
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- Lot Description
Artist: Ronald B. Kitaj Chagrin Falls, OH 1932 -2007
Title: Olympische Spiele München 1972 -Class 2
Medium: color offset lithograph - Plate-Signed By The Artist
Provenience: F. Bruckmann KG, Munich/Kennedy Press Germany
ARTIST: Kitaj was recognized as being one of the world's leading draftsmen, almost on a par with, or compared to, Degas.
Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, his father left his mother shortly after his birth and they were divorced in 1934. His mother, who was an American-born daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants worked in a steel mill as a teacher and later remarried in 1941 to Dr. Walter Kitaj. Ronald became a merchant seaman with a Norwegian freighter when he was 17 before studying at the Akadmie der bildenden Kunste in Vienna and the Cooper Union in New York City. After serving in the United States Army for two years in France and Germany he moved to England to study at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts in Oxford (1958-59). Here he developed a love for Cezanne. He then studied at the Royal College of Art in London (1959-61) alongside David Hockney, Derek Boshier, Peter Phillips, Allen Jones and Patrick Caulfield.
Kitaj settled in England, and through the 1960's taught at the Ealing Art college, the Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art. In 1968 he also taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He staged his first solo exhibition at Marborough New London Gallery in London in 1963, entitled "Pictures with commentary, Pictures without commentary". In this exhibition text was included in the pictures and the accompanying catalogue referred to a range of literature and history, citing Aby Warburg's analysis of symbolic forms as a major influence.
Original Vintage Offset Lithograph Collection 1972 Olympische Speiel Munchen Series (Editions Olympia 1972 GmbH)
The choice of the artists who were to be invited had to be made along these lines: A precise study of the market was needed at the time. Established and avant-garde trends in art ought to be represented in the series: expressionism, surrealism, neorealism, pop-art/op-art. The artists had to be experienced in designing posters; their high artistic quality had to be world famous.
This series of vintage offset lithographs consists of 28 designs by artists: Otl Aicher - Serge Poliakoff - Hans Hartung - Marino Marini - Oskar Kokoschka - Charles Lapicque - Jan Lenica - Fritz Winter - Horst Antes - Shusaka Arakawa - Eduardo Chillida - Victor Vasarely - Piero Dorazio - Pierre Soulages - Otmar Alt - Josef Albers - Allen Jones - Allan D'Arcangelo - David Hockney - Valerio Adami - Tom Wesselmann - R.B. Kitaj - Richard Smith - Max Bill - Jacob Lawrence - Alan Davie - Peter Philipps - Paul Wunderlich - F. Hundertwasser
The art posters were original produced in three different valences:
Printed October 1967, Size 64 cm x 102 cm (25.2 in x 40.2in)
Class 1 - Original graphics: Hand-printed by the artist from the original plate on high-quality paper, signed and limited to 200 copies per design
Class 2 - Original posters: Hand finished further impressions from the same original plate on slightly lower quality paper but heavier than reproduction; the plate is signed, but not numbered. The original poster edition should not exceed 4,000 copies per design.
Class 3 - Original Reproductions of the original graphic: Produced by off-set or photogravure process on poster paper.
Dimension
Height: 40.00Width: 25.00Weight: 3.00Condition
The offset lithograph is guaranteed to be in very good condition or better. The vintage collectable work of art and may show minor handling, aging or original printing defects none of which affect the image.
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